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An AMD 40Mhz 80486 was my first build so I also have a soft spot. At the time it was the fatest x86 one could buy. Gees I even remember lusting after the Ati 8
by vegabook 10y ago
An AMD 40Mhz 80486 was my first build so I also have a soft spot. At the time it was the fatest x86 one could buy. Gees I even remember lusting after the Ati 8514 Ultra, one of the earliest GPU accelerators, clone of IBM's high end workstation standard of the early 90s, as a teenager. Wow I'm getting old.
Conversely, though I admire Intel for its central place in advancing computing itself, I cannot love the company because it has shamelessly monetized its monopoly over the past 7 years or so with vast overpricing on higher end lines. I for one am definitely doing a Ryzen 7 build as soon as I can get a chip, and the same goes for Vega. So happy to see AMD back in the game.
- jcoffland 10y agoI remember those days and bought AMD then too. There was even a third competitor in those days, Cyrix.
- makapuf 10y agoI remember cyrix being later in the game with its 686/166 Mhz proc which did wonders.
- jcoffland 10y agoCyrix had a 486.
- moogly 10y agoand 586 and 686: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_6x86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_6x86 They used a Performance Rating, so the "PR166" wasn't actually running at 166 MHz but 133 MHz. The performance rating was meant to show that it was "equivalent to a 166 MHz Pentium".
- barrkel 10y agoThey marketed 5x86 and 6x86. Faster integer performance than Intel; the FPU was the weak spot.
- yrro 10y agoDon't fotget WinChip too...
- mindcrime 10y agoMine was an AMD 386DX-40, followed by a 486DX4-100. And over the years, I've remained somewhat partial to AMD based systems, even when they didn't have the edge in absolute performance. So yeah, I would love to see AMD get it together and start kicking ass again. I also like AMD because they've been at least a little bit more "open source friendly" than some of their competitors (cough Nvidia cough). Which is not to say that they couldn't do more, of course.
- Zardoz84 10y agoAMD 386DX40 --> AMD 486DX5-133PR75 --> K6-2 300MHz --> Duron 900MHz --> Athlon X2 1.5Ghz --> FX4100 --> FX8370E